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Subject:gender pronouns From:Cheryl Lockett Zubak <wwrite -at- IX -dot- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 29 Jun 1995 03:30:31 -0700
In addition to the Miller/Swift book that Steve mentions, you might
also want to take a look at The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage: A Guide
to Nondiscriminatory Language, by Rosalie Maggio (Oryx, 1991). It
covers the basic guidelines for nondiscriminatory language in about 25
pages and then has a dictionary of alternatives to disriminatory
words/phrases, explanations of word use, and so forth.
Cheri Lockett Zubak
wwrite -at- ix -dot- netcom -dot- com
